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Microsoft Accepts Most EU Demands, But Not Over Source

Posted by timothy on from the this-but-not-that dept.

JoeGi writes "Microsoft sent a letter to EU regulators Monday accepting 20 out of the Commission's 26 demands. According to BetaNews, 'The remaining stumbling block to full compliance is source code licensing' as Microsoft is refusing access to open source projects. Microsoft officials told BetaNews they are trying 'to find a way that companies can implement these technologies in code that would get distributed with open source products, but the source code wouldn't be published itself.'"

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  1. MSOSS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    As an act of goodwill Microsoft has decided to open source minesweeper.

  2. No problem by ravenspear · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sure we can get some people to upload a torrent with the code in question...oh wait!

  3. O. J. Microsoft by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 5, Funny
    Meanwhile, in an alternate universe:
    In other words, O. J. Simpson today was convicted of murdering Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman. People familiar with the case stated that O. J. agreed to the terms of the verdict, except the one that says he must go to prison. The court is therefore waiving his prison sentence, and letting O. J. go free. Anyway, he said he was sorry, and he promised not to do anything like that again.
  4. Who is John Galt? by NewUser9 · · Score: 3, Funny

    A sample conversation among international friends:

    European: "Well, but you see friend, this is necessary for the people. We're doing it for the people, after all."

    American: "Yeah, I get that, but aren't you afraid they'll just withdraw from the market?"

    European: "Ha! They wouldn't dare lose such a large piece of our thriving market. Why, why, that's 25 billion a year! Besides, do you really think our government would allow it? We could force them to stay after all. We could nationalize their entire business! What would they do then? Huh?"

    American: "I dunno... *shrugs* Who is John Galt?"

  5. Re:The article says "accepts"... by Pieroxy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because of this Microsoft re-wrote Windows 3.1 to randomly crash if it was run on top of DrDos
    Dude, that was the standard behavior, even with MS-DOS !

    --
    Write boring code, not shiny code!
  6. Re:The article says "accepts"... by GWTPict · · Score: 4, Funny

    Keyboards? Just hide the mice.